{"id":274,"date":"2009-05-24T07:10:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T11:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-05-24T07:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T11:13:05","slug":"star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Princess Leia saw her home planet get waxed by the Death Star, witnessing the demise of one’s home planet has become the gold standard of sci-fi suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 The new Star Trek<\/em> gives us two destroyed planets.\u00c2\u00a0 Billions and billions of lives, but not to worry, their cultures are preserved, and would you check out those visuals?\u00c2\u00a0 The best Trek <\/em>in TV and movies, it seems to me, always relied on heart (sometimes too much heart) and story.\u00c2\u00a0 The new Star Trek<\/em> has neither.<\/p>\n

The actors here are good.\u00c2\u00a0 Professionals armed with hours of material showing them who they’ll become, they deliver young Kirk, Spock et. al. quite convincingly, if mostly predictably.\u00c2\u00a0 The young Kirk was often painful to watch, but then so was Shatner.\u00c2\u00a0 Too campy and cutesy by half, no one could quite decide how seriously we were to take this nostalgic exercise.\u00c2\u00a0 Even so, if there’d been a story to care about, things might’ve gone well.<\/p>\n

The story, however, is just plain dopey and dull and heartless.\u00c2\u00a0 The villain powering the plot is a misinformed idiot from the future, more to be pitied than feared if it weren’t for his big planetary drill and his red glob of black hole stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 The only way to save the planet is to sword fight without getting incinerated by the blasting flames.\u00c2\u00a0 (The game developer wrote this bit).\u00c2\u00a0 The villain’s ship and its interior is way spooky but must be a bitch to work in.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks like it was designed by an art director in collaboration with the fight director.\u00c2\u00a0 All in all, the future doesn’t seem very bright.\u00c2\u00a0 Or interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice tattoos though.<\/p>\n

This movie doesn’t care about the story; it’s an excuse to do what every dumb sf movie does:\u00c2\u00a0 Have pointless fights (fists, swords, whatever) and blow shit up.\u00c2\u00a0 And oh yeah, spawn sequels.\u00c2\u00a0 The cash cow is mooing again.\u00c2\u00a0 Expect more of the same II.<\/p>\n

This is a real good and loud blow-shit-up movie with a big cheese ball (provided by Leonard Nimoy) in the middle.\u00c2\u00a0 Decent science fiction?\u00c2\u00a0 Not so much.\u00c2\u00a0 A thought in its head?\u00c2\u00a0 $$.\u00c2\u00a0 A big disappointment.\u00c2\u00a0 The previews for other crappola sf, all seeming to sport transformers and explosions, were supposed to make us grateful for the biggest, noisiest blockbuster of the summer.\u00c2\u00a0 Ugh.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to watch decent science fiction these days, watch television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since Princess Leia saw her home planet get waxed by the Death Star, witnessing the demise of one’s home planet has become the gold standard of sci-fi suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 The new Star Trek gives us two destroyed planets.\u00c2\u00a0 Billions and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}